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A Special Macrobiotic Cooking Class

Saturday, February 20               1-4 pm                       just $45 per person

This is a very special Macrobiotic and Vegan Cooking Class!

And just may be worth the trip to Atlanta!

You may be on a Macrobiotic, Vegetarian or Vegan Diet,

and still not reaping and the most health improvement for all your cooking efforts!

This is the class for YOU to learn about the Great Life Diet*

Based on Michio Kushi teaching 6 years ago, upon discovering Kushi Institute teachers had developed their own way of teaching, and ventured away from traditional cooking methods. We will cover basics explained in The Macrobiotic Path to Total Health, by Michio Kushi and Alex Jack.

Learn the unique tips Mr. Kushi feels are important for each dish.

*Menu*

Miso Soup

Special Drink for Liver Health***

Really right way for Pressure-Cooking Brown Rice!

The Pressed Salad – Learn how it relieves PRESSURE!!!!

Kinpira Soup – the Mac-Daddy Strengthener of all Times!

Nishimi Vegetables awesomeful delishious with Kuzu Sauce!

Roots and Tops the perfectly Balanced Vegetable Dish!

Blanched Vegetables & Dressing for Expeditious Energy

Ame Kuzu, the drink to relax & sleep well through the night

Ume Sho Kuzu, the Macrobiotic Antibiotic for Immune System, Jet Lag, & Dental Appointments

Flying into Atlanta for this class? Easy Marta accessibility!

Nearby hotel, motel accommodations available!

Cooking class at the home of Marsha and Fred Rueff

1130 Trailridge Lane

Dunwoody, Georgia 30338

770 . 396 . 9413              cell: 678 . 643 . 5662           email: marsharueff@mac.com

Please RSVP asap! Your check holds your spot!

Hurry, space is limited!

*The Great Life Diet, by Denny Waxman greatly enhances your practice of Macrobiotics, and is additional text material for our classes.

Warren Kramer internationally-known Senior Macrobiotic Counselor will be in Atlanta July 15-20, 2009. Teacher for the Kushi Institute, Strengthening Health Institute, the Macrobiotic Cruise, and New England Macrobiotic Center, Warren brings a wealth of knowledge gained from the eleven years he served as Michio Kushi’s private assistant, as well as over 25 years counseling throughout the world.

In Atlanta Warren will be giving private consultations, macrobiotic cooking classes, and evening  lectures in the Dunwoody area. Attend all events & have a private consultation, and you will receive 15% savings on lecture and cookings classes Thursday through Sunday.

Please contact Marsha Rueff to reserve consultation time with Warren and your choice of venues  at marsharueff@mac.com .

Phone contact: 678 . 643 . 5662 or 770 . 396 . 9413.

For Warren’s bio please visit www.macrobioticsnewengland.com

Thursday July 16, please join us for a special evening’s lecture, Sweet Seductions – Breaking the Sugar Addiction, July 16, 7:30-9 pm at the Rueff Home, 1130 Trailridge Lane, Dunwoody, Georgia 30338. A special topic for Warren is a natural from his intense research on hypoglycemia which earned him great respect from his colleagues and clients. This incredible expertise extends to the amazing material Warren has gathered to speak on sugar addiction. So vital today! Can you believe the average person today consumes 147 pounds of sugar annually? Yes, people are caught in a sugar addiction – as Warren explains, take that morning sugar away, and watch people barely being able to move in the morning. One of the worse foods we can consume, Warren explains how to step off the sugar roller coaster ride once and for all. He will describe the difficulty our health endures when we consume sugar. Knowing this valuable information is very helpful when we are choosing a different and healthier macrobiotic diet and lifestyle. You will learn healthy alternative sweetners as well as satisfying sweet dishes and beverages far easier on our bodies, relaxing and helpful to our health. We will serve a delicious non-sugar dessert and tea recommended on the macrobiotic diet! Maybe you can even guess the source of minerals in this yummy dessert! You’ll find out in Warren’s lecture!

Suggested reading: Sugar Blues, by William Dufty, journalist and husband to Gloria Swanson, writes the history of sugar, and how the ill effects of sugar have been known hundreds of years.

The Macrobiotic Path to Total Health, by Michio Kushi and Alex Jack

You’re on a macrobiotic diet and you just ordered a beer? You’re having sake? But I thought you were on a macrobiotic diet? Did I see you having some wine, and you claim to eat so pure? Now I’m not going to believe anything you say about food anymore. Do you hear comments like these? I just did, and from a close family member.

A standard macrobiotic diet includes whole grain, beans, selected vegetables, soups, sea vegetables, sometimes recommended fish, seeds, nuts and fruit. And each category has special preparations. So why add alcoholic beverages to this healthy lifestyle? Is this hypocritical?

Not when we consider the yin and yang of it all, and how the macrobiotic diet is based on energetics – not calories, carbs, or weight. But how eating this food makes us feel. What is our energy like. Relaxing in this fast pace world is challenging, so we intentionally include relaxing foods and beverages.

Fruit kantens, pureed soups, warm fruit cooked in kuzu relax; try some warm apple juice, warm carrot juice and feel yourself relax deeper inside than biting into a cold apple. Sliced apples cooked in little apple juice is far sweeter and more relaxing too.

Sometimes a little stronger yin is called for, and that bit of warm sake relaxes our core being, or a glass of wine at your favorite Italian restaurant. Or, you’re out with friends at a local seafood restaurant – relax, enjoy a local beer with fish and chips. Why local beer? It aligns you with your environment. In fact, Warren Kramer suggests ordering local beer balances the yang of traveling. And it gets you in the groove of wherever you visit.

And when you want a milder yin? Adding apple juice to your bancha tea is very relaxing, or rice syrup. You can dilute the apple juice with water if you are limiting your fruit intake.

Sometimes try this special remedy drink, Ame Kuzu, which can actually be made three ways. Each achieves a stronger level of yin. The mildest is with rice syrup, a little stronger version uses barley malt, and the most yin is with apple juice. Warm and sweet, it relaxes your mind, settling down after a busy day, or having too much on your mind, and insures a good night sleep. Sometimes it’s an effective muscle relaxer.

The Ame Kuzu recipe is found in The Macrobiotic Path to Total Health, by Michio Kushi and Alex Jack, page 446.

• Dilute 1 teaspoon kuzu in 1 cup cold water
• Stir constantly over a medium flame, until the milky white liquid becomes transparent.
• Add 1-2 Tablespoons Suzanne’s Genmai Brown Rice Syrup
• Bring to a gentle boil*, and drink warm. *kuzu must boil to be effective.
• Or, the following:
• Prepare the Barley Malt version the same as above.
• Substitute Apple juice instead of water, or you can dilute with half juice, half water.